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ROXAS City: Congressman-elect Antonio del Rosario
(Liberal Party, First District, Capiz) will support Cebu solon Pablo
Garcia’s bid for Speakership in the House of Representatives.
The outgoing Roxas City mayor
said he and 15 elected LP congressmen have decided to throw their
support to Garcia against Speaker Jose de Venecia.
“I will stand by the party
whatever happens,” he stressed.
Del Rosario told reporters here
that Garcia assured them, particularly neophyte and nonadministration
congressmen, of equal sharing of Priority Development Assistance
Fund (PDAF).
“Even if you are allies or not,
he (Garcia) assures us of equal share of PDAF. Unlike de Venecia …
only allies of Malacañang will have a share,” he said.
Del Rosario ran under the
LP-Senators Franklin Drilon and Mar Roxas wing.
There are 120 neophyte
congressional representatives elected during the last elections.
The three-termer mayor has been
in Manila for the past days to familiarize with his new work and
organize his staff in Congress. He announced that of the six staff
allowed by Congress to each solon, four will be built-in staff of
outgoing Cong. Rodriguez Dadivas and only two will be coming from
him. The two would be his cousin, Alberto “Jojo” Roldan and
another would be from his children.
Del Rosario said he would have a
district office at the Capiz Provincial Capitol to be provided by
Governor-elect Victor Tanco Sr.
Even if most of his time will be
in Manila, del Rosario said he will try his very best to pour into
the First District of Capiz projects. He will also support the bills
of Roxas. He said his constituents would remember him by his
projects realized during his almost nine years stint as mayor of
Roxas City.
Some of his major legacies are
the ongoing P10-million People’s Parks in Barangay Baybay here.
The project will further boost Capiz’ claim as the Seafood Capital
of the Philippines, the Paseo de Catedral, museum, public plaza,
public market, police outpost, the hortus botanicus garden, Libas
fishing port, barangay halls and centers, concreting of roads and
streets, among others.
 --Panay
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